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...inable development illustrates the emergence of local political actors in global political spaces, especially when national governments are absent or weak (Betsill and Bulkeley 2006; Koehn 2008; Selin and VanDeveer 2009; Bouteligier 2012). Cases of the incorporation of local or indigenous knowledge in, for example, biodiversity negotiations have highlighted how ideas, knowledge, and expertise may flow not only downwards, from the global level, but also upwards, informing how global policies are created and strengthened (Martello 2001; Jasanoff and Martello 2004). The “new regionalism” in GEG (Balsiger and VanDeveer 2012) and new political architectures, such as the Reducing Emissions through Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program being designed and enacted under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (Doherty and Schroeder 2011), have drawn attention to linkages across multiple sites at local, regional, 10 Insights from Global Environmental Governance and global levels in GEG. These instances may be nested (such as regional centers nested within a broader chemicals regime), or separate institutions focusing on the same problem on different scales (Cities for Climate Protection and the U...